All 6 Uses of
estimate
in
Gone with the Wind
- Honey was a fool, a silly, a simpleton about men, but she had a feminine instinct about other women that Scarlett had underestimated.†
Chpt 1.6underestimated = calculated or judged too low
- There was more cotton in the fields than she or Pork had estimated, probably four bales, and soon the cabins would be full.†
Chpt 3.26 *estimated = roughly calculated or guessed (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
- She said her lumber was better and cheaper too, and to prove it she ran up a long column of figures in her head and gave him an estimate then and there.†
Chpt 4.36estimate = a rough calculation or guess of a value, quantity, or extent of something
- When Tommy accepted her estimate and gave her the order, Scarlett had not taken her departure speedily and meekly but had idled about, talking to Johnnie Gallegher, the foreman of the Irish workers, a hard-bitten little gnome of a man who had a very bad reputation.†
Chpt 4.36
- Still, unbidden, came the thought that Ashley could never make a quick estimate in his head and give a price that was correct, as she could.†
Chpt 4.41
- He gave her a level look as though estimating how much coquetry was behind the question.†
Chpt 5.50estimating = roughly calculating or guessing (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
Definition:
rough calculation or judgment